The energy "crisis" should be dealt with as a matter of national security. The environmental issues are a distraction. The public is ready for a long range plan that makes our energy supply secure from foreign whimsy and makes costs more predictable. A transition to renewable sources of electrical power, combined with a move to electric cars, accomplishes both and is cost effective over the long (25 years) haul. The initial expenses are every bit as fundable as the Iraq war. We have a national emergency, let's follow Mr. Bush's example and fund this off budget. At present, neither candidate is proposing a solution to the real problem. They are way behind the voting public on this one. People can deal with high gas prices if they know that a solution is down the road. The discouragement that we see in the polls is the result of high costs, severe weather, and no solution in sight due to governmental paralysis.

2:24 pm July 29, 2008

Gordon Boyd wrote :

For 10+ years, we have helped small businesses shop for electricity and natural gas on the open market. Our experience has shown that people will make pretty good choices if they have choices to make. Smart meters, smart grid and energy efficiency programs can be facilitated by government, but don't require a huge amount of public subsidy. Allowing people to run dishwashers and clothes dryers at night, at a lower rate, uses the system more efficiently, but it requires new utility tariffs to offer that option and incentive to consumers. Sometimes the really big ideas are too big for the country to digest. Opening up more choices and flexibility will allow consumers to respond correctly.

3:56 pm July 29, 2008

Mike Schiele wrote :

Politicians have had 30 years to implement an Energy Plan and all they have done is to pass energy bills that in the scheme of things are just window dressing and election year posturing.

An Energy Plan should be passed that provides the same priority and funding as the Manhatten Project or the Apollo Project with the goal of being energy independent in no more than 5-10 years. Every possible economnic or near economic energy should be utilized along with conservation both voluntary and mandated. Government funding should be available for new technologies especially coal to gas and coal to liquid projects. A 5 year moratorium on any new environmental legislation or regulations.

4:02 pm July 29, 2008

Bob Lawrence wrote :

I don't get it. Battery operated cars? When I got my last electric bill, I thought I might have to take out a loan to pay it. We have a Nuke plant on our grid, but the cost of electricity is mostly based on the fossil fuel economy. I just don't see how it will be cheaper to run on a battery that has to be re-charged. Maybe someone out there can explain this to me.

4:51 pm July 29, 2008

Kevin Mont wrote :

As a poster stated above we need Manhattan Project for Energy Independence. We've run a successful Nuclear Program in this country for over 50 years (Nuclear powered submarines and aircraft carriers, etc.) France gets over 80 % of their electricity from Nuclear power and the little waste that currently cannot be reprocessed is stored in a single building in Normandy.

Standard design Nuclear power plants should be fast-tracked. Start drilling for oil. Why is it alright for the Saudi Arabia, Nigeria etc. to drill for oil but we won't here in the U.S.? Coal to liquid should be ramped up (Germany fought a war with this old technology). Instead of wasting our precious natural gas by burning it to produce electricity it should be used in our vehicles. All this would reduce our greenhouse emissions drastically. While I'm not against wind power realistically it won't make much of a difference. In addition the genocide that those Wind farms will inflict on the birds who will be slaughtered in mass will reduce it's popularity.

10:01 pm July 29, 2008

Leo Pepin wrote :

The first priority of any administration should be the elimination of the EPA and the use of RICO laws to criminalize the environmental movements extremist for compromising this nation's prosperity and security for pseudo-science and sheer idiocy with their final goal being our enslavement to the preternaturally incompetent state.

9:17 am August 25, 2008

RSC wrote :

Should be treated as a National Mission. This one is so easy and does not need to be politicized as it is a National Security issue. Drill for domestic oil, wind, solar, coal, solar, Nuclear, Bio, we need it all!!!! Not one at the exclusion of another.

9:47 am August 25, 2008

DJ Toman wrote :

Alternatives, with the exception of nuclear, boil down to alternative land use. They are a dead end. Remember that the sun, at noon on a cloudless day, produces a flux of abut 100 watts per square foot. The square foot part is the key.

Synthetics from coal are the best near-in alternative. Forget the global warming hype. It's a left-wing fascist scam.

Familiarity with the periodic table of elements should convince anyone with a brain that battery technology is another dead end.

We have small nuclear power plants running all around the world now in the from of nuclear submarines. Why not expand on that technology?

There are too many politicians and not enough people who can actually think involved in solving this "problem."

2:10 pm August 25, 2008

Wes Needham wrote :

I am very concerned that American citizens are not getting the full story on Mr. Obama's version of the cap and trade system. People like to hear the part of the story where Mr. Obama auctions off the carbon allowances, takes the money, and invests it in renewable energy research. What the Obama camp fails to mention is the devastating impact this will have on electricity rate payers. To require a fee for every ton of carbon emitted is to levy a tax on rate payers in states with heavy dependence on fossil generation - a move grossly inconsistent with Mr. Obama's professed desire to ease the burden of energy costs on lower income Americans.

The cap and trade system implemented by the next president's administration should mirror that of the SOx an NOx caps imposed earlier this decade: begin by auctioning off a small percentage of the allowances, then slowly increase this percentage over many years, thus giving utilities a chance to adjust instead of crushing rate payers with electric bills 50 or 60% higher than those of the year prior.

4:23 pm August 25, 2008

Charles Wickstrom wrote :

Drill here, drill now. It's an easy formula for increasing the domestic supply of oil. This creates real jobs, taxable income and don't forget the royalty payments to the federal government. The lame excuse that we won't see any production for ten years is blatantly false. If we had drilled ANWR ten years ago we would have 1MM BO/D more domestic production generating $100MM/D taxable income and $20MM/D royalty payment to our indebted federal government.
The "Debating the Issues" report of 8-25-08 is great, keep at the candidates until they actually answer a straight question.
I do find it enlightening (but not surprising) that neither of the candidate's key advisors on energy have a technical background.

5:55 pm August 30, 2008

Donald R. Spalding wrote :

In addition to alternative energy boondoggles and opening off-limits areas to oil exploration and production, there is another way to lessen America's dependence on foreign oil which requires neither taxpayer subsidies nor drilling. It's the Fischer-Tropsch process, developed in Germany in the early 20th. Century, which fueled the Nazi war machine to an estimated 40 million barrels of oil, was adopted by South Africa in response to the Apartheid-era oil embargoes, and is still being used by SASOL, the South African oil company.
It involves reacting coal and steam at high temperatures and pressures, passing the resulting carbon monoxide and hydrogen through a series of catalysts which cause these gases to react, producing a crude oil which can be refined like any other. The cost is some 3X that of conventional oil production, but with current oil prices which are destined to go only up, Fischer-Tropsch oil is profitable now. Unlike other mined sources of oil such as tar sands or oil shale, it does not produce vast amounts of solid waste and much of the water required can be recycled. Since America has among the world's largest deposits of coal, its potential is huge.
However, from start to end product consumption it does produce much more of that dreaded "greenhouse gas", carbon dioxide, than simply burning the coal used would. So, as long as America, from the Supreme Court and current Presidential candidates to the scientifically illiterate man in the street is in the thrall of the spurious claim that tiny man-made contributions (

11:13 am September 4, 2008

HannahAIA wrote :

Although reducing our dependence on foreign oil is key in this election, reducing energy needs seems to fall by the wayside. Often the biggest contributor to carbon and greenhouse gas emissions, buildings, is overlooked. Buildings account for nearly 48 percent of the greenhouse gases related to electricity production nationally.

The American Institute of Architects recently asked people on the street what they think the biggest energy users, energy needs, etc. are. (See the video: DesignVote08 video). The campaigns need to recognize this and raise awareness about the effect buildings have on the environment.

We all need to inform the presidential candidates, Capitol Hill and voters of what can be done to support energy efficient design standards at the commercial and residential levels.

12:24 am September 7, 2008

CC wrote :

While I'm sure Mr. McCarrick and Ms. Zichal are great people and love their families and all, it's pretty certain they are clueless when in comes to national and world energy policy and problem solving. I'm sure they are upper middle or upper class white people, who attended prestigious universities and slid right into high paying jobs. I doubt they even pump their own gas, and maybe they even have limos taking them around. When you have to get out in the oil patch in different parts of the world, crunch the numbers, and watch production ebb and fall, that's the kind of person that knows energy.

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dMs827LK:
Does anyone kno if there are any CW icons out there? if not, is it possible for someone to make one?
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I could make some, how big did they have too be?on another note Orla's old official site used to have AIM icons though there gone now.
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Quote from: dMs827LK on September 10, 2009, 06:53PMOh that would be amazing!Icons can only be 50x50 pixels and 7,000 bytes in size or smaller due to restrictions in AIM. Icons should be 48x48 for best results.48 x 48 pixels and no more than 7K size. i got the second one directly from AIM so that size might work betterThank you for trying...even if it doesn't workDaynai have tried to get cw pictures as my aim icon but i cant figure out how to do it correctly. Saving it in my pictures wont work because there is no way to upload it to the internet. so i havent figured out how to do it. does anyoene know how to make it work?
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